: audiiies Danger Seen In Allied Control — Council Appointments In Germany Lieut. Gen. Lucius Clay, Council, has announced the appointment of a number of American Gen. Eisen hower's representative on the Allied Control “specialists’” ‘to super- vise German economy. The appoint#iénts, which have caused speculation among circles in the United States as to whether the power of the German monopo; |- - lies, include a number of repre- sentatives from the large Amer- -ican. monopolies. It is pointed out that it was during 1925-1929 that over two billion dollars was invested by American firms in Germany, as .part of the program for the stabilization of “ the German ;economy. German industry was -modernized, its transport’ re- - stored, and the whole German economy renovated with the aid of American investments. By 1929 Germany had regained her prewar position of economic dominance in Europe, and im- proved her world trading posit tion beyond the prewar level. The appointment caused the history of American invest- ments to restore Germany af- ter the last war to come into sharp fecus. Among those slated to hold positions of supervisions are R. J. Wysor, until recently president of the Republic Steel Corporation, ‘who will supervise German stee] production; Edward S. Zdunek, formerly head ef Gen- eral Motors at Antwerp, to supervise the engineering sec- tion; Peter Hoglund, on leave from General Motors and an expert on German production, to act as deputy to Col. James Boyd who is in charge of in- policy of thé’ United States is aimed at restoring the dustriaF “production; Philip _ Clover ~ “Of © Sccony - Vacuum, subsidiary of Standard Oil of _New Jersey, -as’ chief of the oil produétion® section. Clover formerly” : Fepresented Socony in Germany;‘Philip Gaethke, before the “war°’manager of ‘Anaconda Brass ‘Corporation’s smelters and mines in Upper Silesia, ‘to direct all mining operations in the American zone of occupation. Standard Oil, through Socony- Vacuum which handles its for- eign business, General Motors, and Anaconda were among the chief American ‘investors in Ger- many following. World War I. General Electric, not directly represented in the group of ap- pointees, is. komwn to own at least 30 percent of the stock of German General Electric. Germany’s ‘trading position and economic dominance of Eur- ope took place through the strengthening of German capi- tal. During the period following World War 1, British and Amer- ican monopolies extended their eartel ties with German indus- tries. The firms represented by the new appointments of the ACC were closely linked with the whole cartel structure. It’ is important to note that the Ruhr-Rhineland-Saar reg- ions are by far the most import- Unity Only Basis For Lasting World Peace In the interests of successful establishment of a world secur- ity organization, the Soviet Del- egation at San Francisco have agreed to a modified operation of the principle of unanimity of permanent members of the Se- curity Council. The reaching of a successful accord among the Big Five over what was made to appear in the daily press as a thorny issue which threatened to split the World Security Confer- ence has smoothed the way for the important discussions yet to take place at San Francisco. As things now stand, consider- ation and discussion of a dispute by the Council does not require unanimity of the permanent members; but such unanimity is required for any decision to make investigation or to take action. Campaigning by nations such as Australia to restrict or abol- ish the veto, carried on with . some Canadian support, have ob- secured the important aspect of the unanimity principle. In this regard the daily press, by sen- sationally reporting the “veto issue” as a serious and major threat to the security organiza- tion, aided those elements led by reaction who have deliberately falsified and distorted the World Security Conference and all of its objectives. The position of the Soviet Union was reported by the press as obstructive, and So- viet insistence that the Big Five base its position on decisions al- ready reached at Yalta was termed “unacceptable” and “‘out- rageous.” PAGE 2 — PACIFIC ADVOCATE The fact remains that the Dumbarton Oaks Plan, which was accepted by the United Na- tions as the basis for discussion at San Francisco, rested on the principle of unity and unanimity of the permanent members of the proposed security council in all decisions relating to the main- tenance of world peace and se- curity. It remains an undeniable fact that there is no other basis ex- cept that laid down in the Dum- barton Oaks Plan for the effect- ive safeguarding of world peace. This fact remains, not because one power or another insists that it be so, but because that is the reality of the present day world. President Roosevelt originally proposed the voting formula which -won acceptance, and this provided for the unanimity of the Big Five on all questions other than procedural matters; with the added. proviso that a party to dispute -..under discussion should abstain from voting. The issue at San’ Francisco now is to overcome opposition by a number of small and middle powers to the formula arrived at hy the Big Five. The principle of acceptance. of united leadership by the major powers in maintain- 3 Dp l f ing the peace has already been accepted by the Labor Movement at the London Labor Conference, and is the only means by which the maintenance of world peace can be assured. ant. industrial. areas of Germany and. of Western Europe. A U.S. |: government expert, writing re- cently in a Department of State bulletin, showed that up to 80 percent of the basic products uf German heavy industry come from this area. : These areas before the war also supplied the majority of the Continued on Page 7 See—DANGER Representatives Ot-the Soviet military commanda Berlin and German, architects inspect the ruins of a: block in the gutted capital. . Postwar Tasks And Pro Discussed NEW YORK, N.Y.—While victory over Hitler Germany has created the condi | for speedy defeat of Japanese imperialism and for the establishment of an enduring it 1s necessary to “‘decisively strengthen the democratic unity of the nation” Roosevelt’s program and defeat the gathering gang-up of reaction. This was the call of the Na- tional Board of the Communist Political Association here last week in a draft resolution open- ing a full discussion by U.S. Communists on the perspective facing the world, and first of all American labor and the people following victory in Europe. The resolution which also criticized certain policies previously advo- cated by the CPA under the leadership of Earl Browder, was adopted with only Browder vot- ing against it. At a mass CPA membership meeting here this week, Brow- der declared that the discussion will bring greater unity and clarity in the Communist ranks and castigated those who were rejoicing about “disunity” in CPA. “With the ending of the war against Nazi Germany,” the res- olution. stated, “the important groupings of American capital, which were opposed to German imperialist world domination, are joining hands with the most reactionary and pro-fascist cir- cles of monopoply capital—with the pro-fascist duPont clique in the leadership of the N.A.M. Now that Nazi Germany has been crushed, these Big Business circles which heretofore support- ed, though inconsistently, the war against Hitler, in order. to eliminatte their German imperial- ist rival, are today frightened by the democratic consequences of that victory. “Like their British counter- parts, they are alarmed at the strengthened positions of world labor, at the democratic ad- vances in Europe and at the up- surge of the national liberation movements in the colonial and dependent countries. Therefore they seek to halt the march of aemocracy; to curb the strength of labor and the people. They want to save the remnants of fascism in Germany and in the rest of Europe. They are trying to organize a new cordon sani- taire against the Soviet Union which bore the main brunt of the war against the Nazis, and which is the staunchest champ- ion of national freedom, democ- racy and world peace.” 1d Problems .S. Communist YY to. carry mistakes consisted in dr:) a number of erroneous co. ions from the historic s eance of the Teheran